{"id":18341,"date":"2020-03-09T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=18341"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:40:54","slug":"citenlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-preventative-health-and-wellness","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/citenlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-preventative-health-and-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"#CiteNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Preventative Health and Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/wiki\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18344\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia is used for health information by 50-70% of physicians. Help us improve health information on Wikipedia.\" width=\"495\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/6.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a>Wikipedia&#8217;s health topics pages are visited nearly 7 billion times a year. Citing National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources in Wikipedia articles improves the credibility of the content. #CiteNLM is a campaign to improve the quality of Wikipedia&#8217;s health-related articles. #CiteNLM Wikipeadia Edit-a-thons are held twice annually. <strong>The Spring #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, focusing on preventative health and wellness, will be held virtually on April 30, 2020.<\/strong> Libraries are encouraged to participate in the virtual edit-a-thon, or host their own events throughout the month of April.<\/p>\n<p>To get ready for the upcoming #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, <a href=\"\/\/nnlm.gov\/class\/citenlm-wikipedia-edit-thon-training\/22567\">attend the training on Thursday, April 2<\/a> , 2020 (10-11am Alaska, 11-noon Pacific, noon-1pm Mountain).<\/p>\n<p>When planning an Edit-a-thon event in your library, or to participate virtually on April 30th, <a href=\"https:\/\/outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org\/campaigns\/citenlm_spring_2020\/overview\">sign up for the campaign on the #citeNLM Dashboard<\/a>. The dashboard tracks involvement in the edit-a-thon.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ve participated in #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thons in the past, or this is your first time, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/national\/guides\/ccs\/wikipedia-edit-thon\">Wikipedia Edit-a-thon guide<\/a> for a comprehensive list of resources and information about participating in the #citeNLM event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia&#8217;s health topics pages are visited nearly 7 billion times a year. Citing National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources in Wikipedia articles improves the credibility of the content. #CiteNLM is a campaign to improve the quality of Wikipedia&#8217;s health-related articles. #CiteNLM Wikipeadia Edit-a-thons are held twice annually. The Spring #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, focusing on preventative&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/citenlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-preventative-health-and-wellness\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,58,4],"tags":[230,83,74,82],"class_list":["post-18341","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-news-from-nnlm","category-regional-news","tag-citizen-science","tag-edit-a-thon","tag-training","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18352,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions\/18352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}